College trail a blooming success
Cornish College’s Indigenous Plant Trail has been recognised in the 2016 Victoria Schools Garden Awards. It is in the running for a state award in the Most Engaging Student Garden for Teaching category.
Back to first principles
After 17 years working for synod, the last 10 as executive director of the Commission for Mission, Rev David Pargeter is, in some ways, starting again.
November 2016 Synod Snaps
Hamilton KUCA (Kids of the Uniting Church in Australia) recreated the story of Joseph.
Energy audits make cents
NIGEL TAPP It may seem too easy, but a church can reduce its power bills by up to $40 a week simply by contacting their current provider and ensuring they are receiving the best possible tariff price.
Forgotten meaning of Halloween
With Halloween goodies and Christmas delights jostling for space on the shelves of our supermarket, it can be hard to remember that the season of trick-or-treating has its foundation in the Christian celebration of All S
Talking mental health with the moderator
DAVID SOUTHWELL “We need to keep talking about these issues, we need to keep caring for each other. It’s an issue that’s very close to my heart and an issue I am passionate about.
Frugality and hope
Friday Forum Your views on the news A recent study by ACOSS (Australian Council of Social Service) found that more than 3 million Australians live below the poverty line.
Australian stories
Pic credit: Ros Horin, Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe DOCUMENTARY | THE BAULKHAM HILLS AFRICAN LADIES TROUPE Review by Deb Bennett The Baulkham Hills African Ladies Troupe documents writer Ros Horin’s involvement w
Living Stones – Decades of being denied basic rights
Last week in Melbourne at the launch of the Living Stones campaign, the General Secretary of the World Council of Churches (WCC) Reverend Dr Olav Fyske Tveit highlighted that next year Palestinian Christians will have be
Pakistani Christian woman faces death for blasphemy
The Uniting Church is calling on the Pakistani government to repeal the country’s blasphemy laws as Christian woman Asia Bibi continues to languish on death row.
Child poverty on the rise
Nearly 30 years ago, former Prime Minister Bob Hawke declared he wanted no Australian child living in poverty by 1990.
Clarence UC’s Mental Health Week message of solidarity
Moderator Sharon Hollis told a lunch for mental health carers at Clarence Uniting Church in Hobart on Wednesday that they were sending out an important message in an area that is still often shrouded in shame and silence